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26:31Most brides are so nervous. They're not making it their priority. And what I was doing in that moment and how I was respecting my intolerances or the way that I had learned to eat for my body. So the reason why that video went viral is because it was very polarizing. And there was still a conversation around health being diet culture and around eating in a way that respects your body being on a diet, which they are not at all the same thing. When you meet someone who eats for cognitive function, when you meet somebody who eats for high energy, who nourishes their body, yes, they love food, but also is conscious and mindful of what they're putting in their body, that is very different than somebody who is restricting or cutting out certain foods or eliminating things because they have a goal of back to that weight loss conversation.

27:25And that's usually what it is. They're trying to look for a calorie deficit. So that piece of content to so many people that still did not understand that shift in particularly women's health and particularly around diet, that piece of content looked like somebody dieting on their wedding because I don't eat gluten, because I don't eat dairy. But why can't you diet on your wedding? I dieted on my wedding. I don't understand that. I want to understand why that's a big deal to diet on your wedding. What people are so upset about is they were saying it's one day. Why wouldn't you just eat that? Well, for me, the reason I wouldn't want to eat it is because I was in my wedding dress that was a certain size.

28:07Fair, fair. And like that's the reality is that you can have whatever choice. for me. The next day after the wedding, I was five margaritas deep with like some chips and salsa. But the day of the wedding, like I'm going to be radically honest here. So as the man in the group here and I got to be, there's a lot of minefields here. I got to be careful of Carson. Are you, so the video people, some individuals were upset because you chose to diet and restrict on the day of your wedding. In their eyes. In their eyes. In their eyes. Okay. But is that not a common, I'm going to be careful here. Is that not a common thing that women do on their wedding days i know a lot because i have two sisters and i have a i've been got married and i i know people are very particular about the dress on the wedding day like i know like everyone it's a big it's a big thing right so yes and i think that makes some people upset that people do that and maybe they're feeling like attacked for maybe not or making different choices or everybody was saying like it's your wedding just eat whatever you want or go for it that's projecting their own opinion onto you 100 and that's really why guys have been doing this since spring break since the end of time spring break's coming up you're on the broccoli and chicken diet you want to look i'm gonna one-up you with my hollywood juice that i used to get at rite aid when i was 18 and you drink the whole juice every fucking dude listening or watching knows that you know when you're heading into Cabo for spring break or you're going for that summer.

29:35So they got mad because you dieted on the day of the wedding. So I did not diet on my wedding. I just did what I do every single day, which is consistency. And so I wanted to continue to show that. Now, my community was like, hey, we've been here. We know what you've been through with your health. We know why you respect your intolerances or sensitivities or don't eat a ton of processed sugar, lower alcohol, whatever it is. They get that. But when something goes viral to an audience, that doesn't know you, they don't know you. They don't know context. But also it just it wasn't about me. It became about the conversation that people actually think that that's dieting.

30:15Because in that what I eat in a day, guess what? There's a giant piece of salmon. There's potatoes. there's champagne there's this is normal food but what do you want to see you want to see something that's unhealthy just because it's my wedding you want to see me taking shots off the bar like and again all these choices are not wrong or right it's just let's let people advocate for what works for their own body so many times during the day i just want a drink that feels real something bubbly and cultured that tastes great and actually heals my gut that's why i've been drinking so much Synergy kombucha.

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38:33It's confusing. Like, people are like, let everyone live how they want to live and be who they want to be, but then if you do something that steps outside a certain box, people are mad. I saw Whitney Cummings talking about this the other day. It's very confusing. I have to be honest, like from like a kindergarten level for me, it's very hard for me to digest. Everyone wants you to be who you are and be authentic. And then it's like, but it needs to be this way. Whitney Cummings, who can't like, she is a friend, but I think she's hilarious. She makes me laugh. And she was talking about Sydney Sweeney the other day who was making news.

39:04And she was saying that like women in particular, like you, you know, who cares what people think to be yourself as, but then she was saying like, but people very much cared what she thinks. You know what I mean? they were commenting that they weren't happy with that version of it. No, I think here's the problem with the internet in general. There's so many creators and people that want to know how to unlock going viral, but then they also want to have a protected curated space where they don't get flack. The thing about going viral, and I just hosted with Dear Media a dinner with the meta team and Instagram.

39:33And what we were talking about is basically when you create something, your followers first see it. And if it starts to do well with the followers, then it graduates to another level where they try to introduce it to a new audience that doesn't really follow you. If that does well, it introduces to a wider audience who's likely never heard of you or seen you. What you're essentially doing is inviting people into your house to your party who have no context or idea of you or your story or anything. Then they get to comment with no knowledge of who you are prior. This happens on this show all the time.

40:02Something eclipse. We do this. They get taken out of context. A lot of the times, a lot of the anger and a lot of the people that are upset are people that have no idea who Lauren and I even are. They never heard of us. They just see something that triggers some kind of reaction from them. And I think people just have to be aware that that's the internet. So you don't get upset about it. But also you can use it to your advantage. Of course. Right? And you should. But at the time, I didn't realize that. Oh, you should have DM'd me. You really should have. I did use it to my advantage in a few weeks later.

40:34Good. But in the actual moment. It's overwhelming. It's overwhelming. Okay. So as a creator, I was also much smaller and we had just kind of come out of this cancel culture era, which was so exhausting, like so exhausting. And on the tail end of, you know, pandemic days and we hate everyone for doing every little thing that they're doing. And I spent so much time thinking, oh my God, what if someone catches me on a walk? What if some, like just fear. And it was so ridiculous. And when your whole life is this small little bubble of the way people view you and you're used to being vulnerable and you're used to being authentic and you start questioning if you can actually share those things, there is a lot of fear.

41:23And so I somehow think in my head, I almost manifested it because my biggest fear was being canceled, but I got canceled for the most ridiculous thing, eating the food that feels good for my body. You would say that you got canceled. But let me give you the. Is this canceled? Lauren and I are still being canceled every day, but I just I have not yet felt the impact, Carson. I don't know. This is what I'm saying. I keep hearing that I'm canceled. I will read once in a while things. My dad was luckily enough to because I went to go look at you, son, the other day to see what's going on with you.

41:52And he's like, and I ended up on this place called Reddit. he's like boy i said dad of all the places i'm like can you read the forbes or the wall street journal the new york times like why do you have to go to reddit but he didn't know and i was like and he's like yeah i was like he's like i read that and he's like you would think that your life is i'm like no man i'm like pretty so anyways i have not received the memo that i'm canceled yet but apparently people keep telling me i am because it's not a real thing of course were you canceled in my eyes yes and it also went on major publications globally this was not just like, oh, six million people saw it on TikTok.

42:23What's the headline? Insane bride starves herself. The Daily Males of the World. Pick it up. We had a ray blowed at my wedding and they said that I was forcing pills on guests. That's like a cute detail. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. We have little info cards. Like if you're not feeling good, I love a ray. A ray is fabulous. Yeah. We love a natural herb. We do love a ray. So wait. So when they say you starved guest, what does that mean? Honestly, Lauren, they reported on what I ate and took out full chunks of the meat. Like they did not report on the mains. They did not report on our late night taco bar.

42:58Bride eats green smoothie and veggie platter all day and then has anti-bloat pills. So here's my question. Now that I've been in this industry for a long time, I have no need to defend myself. I literally don't care. That's how I've gotten so fatigued to the point. I feel like you get neutral. You get neutralized. You just get like, I don't have I'm indifferent. When was the point through all of this? Because yours sound like it went on a huge scale that you became neutralized to it. What was that like? OK, so right away, I was like, brands are going to drop me. They're not going to want to do campaigns with me.

43:37Actually, we had some brands that made me reshoot stuff because obviously people were associated to the wedding. they said, we don't want to be connected to this. Savage. And they made me reshoot content that is, you know, thousands of dollars of like a team and video. And so there was that right away. So I was like, this is affirming my biggest fears. And then my husband, love him more than anything. Also male's perspective. All news is great news, babe. This is amazing. This is a great conversation. you can now you have a platform to talk about what you were actually doing which is your health story and your health journey and I was honestly terrified to leave the house for a couple weeks I thought that like I was much smaller at the time it wasn't the era of everything going viral in the same way it was still like early on this is two and a half years ago or so and I thought being on all these news outlets, being viral on TikTok and Instagram in this huge, huge way, I'm going to go get a coffee and the barista is going to be like, oh, you're that girl.

44:43Oh, you're the bride. So you thought that the whole world was like in on it. I hadn't. This was like for a short period of time, but I just had no reality of like what was happening because you're in a bubble. You're in a bubble. But also until you reach that point now, I'm like, come at me. Like, I love it. It's great. But let me be polarizing. Let's have a conversation. Let's have a healthy discussion or debate. Great. But until that, like when that moment happens for the first time and you've also feared it for a big chunk of your career, it becomes... It's hard. It's hard. Yeah. Yeah. It's hard.

45:15Like you've been through it. And Michael's like, nah, I love it. No, no, no. I mean, listen, I think I, and I've, you know, I work with a lot of people that have been in that situation and have had partners in that situation. Like we've obviously been at the receiving end of that. It's scary when you, when there's like a, in a, a no faced group, when I say no face, meaning it's a stranger on the internet or a group of strangers you've never met trying to impact and destroy parts of your life, whether it's through monetization or tearing down your, your family or like, or commentary, like that could be scary.

45:45What I've realized, not only doing our own plot, but working with so many prominent creators is that like, this is, this is like table stakes it happens to anyone that's creating content out the people that it doesn't happen to are usually playing it so safe that they fall into like the shadows of the creator if you're in the arena you're gonna get meaning like meaning like i've okay i'll like this i can't say who but there's been people that i've had to work with that like i just can't continue working with because they're they're they're not polarizing polarizing and they're not but they're also not really saying anything yeah it's like pick a lane and so nobody's like so they don't have the engagement or the or the uh staying power where i as like an executive in the space can do anything because there's no conversation going on.

46:25And so what I just tell people is like, listen, if you're out there and you're speaking your truth and you're doing something in an authentic way and you're commenting on anything, you are going to, you're not going to please everybody. And you're going to have some corners of the internet that are going to be angry based on what you're doing. Whether it's something that you've triggered in the way that they're living their life. Like, you know, maybe it's somebody that's dealing with some of the issues that's upset about, like, you've got through it. They, like, who knows? Something I'm saying right now is probably pissing somebody off.

46:51You know what I mean? That's just how it goes. And so you can't play in this world if you're going to constantly be concerned about that. Now, the responsibility we all have is you don't want to intentionally go out and try to hurt people, but you also have to do your thing and say your truth. I also just, you got to stand for something. If you do not stand for something, no one will be able to get behind you because you're wishy-washy and swaying from every side, trying to please everybody. When you actually stand in your truth authentically, people see you, they feel seen when they relate to that truth and they will stand beside you.

47:25Until you do that, you will never find your trap. Yeah. And by the way, on the brand front, a lot of those brands that were playing that cancel culture game, many of them became irrelevant. Yeah. And now, and they're full of shit. And I talked to a lot of them, like ad week panels are just doing what I do. Like all of them are back and saying like, hey, who has engagement? Who's moving the need? Who's saying something? We want to go where the interests are. It's no more of these culture wars anymore. It's just bullshit. How do you go from not wanting to leave your house or go to Starbucks to here?

47:52What's the in-between? The thing that pulled me out of that was looking to the supporters. Because what ended up happening, and this has happened for you guys, I'm sure, as well, people start defending you. And people have, even in all of the hate or the anger or people making videos, the green screens of let's go over this bride and her wedding day. People started popping out. Nutritionists started popping out being like, this girl ate great food, right? This girl actually fed herself. And most of my brides' wedding planners, they were all on my side because they see brides that don't eat anything, that are doing crazy diets.

48:33I'm like, what? This girl's just eating her meals. And so there was those people that I didn't know that started to defend me. But then, of course, my existing tribe and community. And what that did was builds that community so much further. And it had people, like we just said, get in a lane and stand there. It had people saying, oh, no, there's her community and they defend this and I relate to them. And now I'm a part of that. Right. Let me join in on that. So I the only way I got out of it was leaning into the people, obviously, that were supporting me and loving it. And when I actually took to my DMs and my like came out of, you know, the little hole after a couple of weeks, I was able to connect with that community so much deeper.

49:18And when I actually looked at my DMs and my messages, everybody was saying, this is me. I go to weddings and I have nothing I can eat. By the way, at our wedding, we had like a whole thing that identified every single allergen. Like it was order a la carte. It's unique to you. It was like cute. Yes. I don't get why anyone cares. it's your wedding. People started to feel seen though. The other side had a mirror to their face feeling threatened and saying, I don't feel like I'm eating well for whatever reason that they felt I'm going to attack this because I feel threatened or, hey, I'm just going to jump on this trend.

49:51Let's be honest. And it's like clickbait. But the other side of it that said, I'm a bride and I'm changing my whole menu now because of you. Can you make me meal plans? Can you help me heal? Because then they would dive through my content and see what I have context. And then they said, I want to understand what you've done. And so it created this mass audience that now was sitting on the other side saying, we're with you. Like, we don't care that these people are so upset about what you ate. Can you actually just help us do what you've done? Everything's happening for you. It's easy to jump on the bandwagon of hate and try to tear people down.

50:25I personally sleep well at night knowing that I've never participated in anything like that with anyone. You did send a rude text to me the other day. But meaning like, okay, as a father, I'm going to teach my children. You need to be a productive member of society. You need to put good out into the world. If you find yourself in an obscure comment section trying to hurt someone that you've never met, you're not living your life the way you should be living. That's what I will tell my children. Don't you think it's entitled to that you think everything you're going to see, you're going to like?

50:59Not everything you see everywhere all day long is going to be stuff you like. The point of it is figuring out what's for you. Well, the problem is this. It's like everybody wants to hold everybody else accountable, but they don't want to hold themselves accountable. Right. So like the way I hold myself accountable is I'm not going to comment on somebody the way that they're living their life if I'm not checking 100 % of the boxes in my life. Like if I'm going to comment on some, I'll just pick, we're talking about body composition. I'm not going to pick on somebody else's body if I'm not doing the things that I need to be doing for my body.

51:28I'm not going to pick on somebody else's relationship if I'm not showing up in my, and so like, it's a way for me to be like, if something's, if I feel triggered in some kind of way or something upsets me, it's likely an indication that I'm falling short somewhere in my own personal life. So that's the work I need to do. Not getting on the internet and attacking somebody I've never met, which is just like an absurd way to live your life. Imagine walking down the street in New York and seeing a stranger and screaming in their face about something that they're wearing. You'd look like a lunatic.

51:53That's what these people look like. But Michael, you're very self-aware. I would hope so. I would hope so. Give me a compliment. Yeah, we'll backtrack this. But the reality is most people don't think that way. They don't think if this triggers me and I want to go on a tangent and yell at them that this is something that's going on in my life. They don't actually have the mindful approach to pay attention to to how they're feeling and how they're reacting. But you're saying, this is something going on in my life. If I'm mad about something with your kids or with what you're doing with your wife, et cetera, I need to look at my own relationship.

52:28The average person doesn't do that. Well, thank you for saying that. But I think that's part of the reason doing this show is what I've always told people about this podcast is I'm not trying to reach the 10 people that are set on thinking that way. I'm trying to reach the one person in that 10 that's like, you know what that's a that's a good point like let me let me switch my stuff and what the dms that i like is like if somebody sees see something that i do or say and they like they write to me i really didn't like that and it makes me feel this way like i i will engage but if it's like i hate you and i want to ruin your life i'm like i just ignore and i move on i don't think about it and i think you know that's that's a healthy way to view it when you look back on everything you went through.

53:09How do you feel about it today? The most aligned possible. Yeah. It has created redirection and direction to my purpose in a much larger way than I could have ever seen in the moment. And I think that's fair. We have to do the work to see why what we're going through ends up being part of the direction on our purpose. But over two years now later, I can look back and see so clearly how I went through that for a reason, to help women feel seen. And all of those women coming to me saying, I need your help. This can help me. You've gone through a similar transformation or like I want to go through a similar transformation, those women then felt seen, felt like they had a safe place.

54:04And that's what created a snowball effect for me to lean into and ignore people that didn't agree. Now, that was early. When I think back on it now, so much of what you were just saying, Michael, it's like there's that one person that probably needs to hear it so much in that group. I think of the people that got behind me were, again, more self-aware that they needed something to support them. The people who didn't get behind me, those are probably the people that need me the most, right? Or need content that allows them to feel like I'm worthy. I can step into the best version of myself because somewhere in their minds, they're telling themselves that they don't deserve that.

54:51They're telling themselves that they don't deserve to feel good, that they don't deserve to make choices for their own body. There is something subconsciously that is a blocker in them living their best life or that they know that they're not living their best life. And so ultimately, those are the people that need it the most. Now, is it my responsibility to handhold everybody to get to that point? No. but it is every individual's responsibility to take what they need for inspiration and co-create alongside of that right if someone comes to you and wants to have a transformation right now and they feel like shit mentally physically emotionally where do you start what's the blueprint the sam blueprint so i from the wedding and i want to take it back to the story here because that is exactly what we would do.

55:41Everybody was coming to me and I was thinking, how do I actually support them? Obviously, I was a health coach, but taking people one-on-one is not going to be able to scale. It's not going to be able to actually serve those people the best that I can because I'm going to be able to take 10 people. So I said, okay, I'm going to throw out a PDF of a meal plan because I think back to what we were talking about, your baseline is your strongest foundation. If you can get to a place where you're feeding yourself whole foods most of the time, you are already light years ahead of the majority of people.

56:08So my approach and the best thing that I thought I could do was throwing up a meal plan. It also distracted me from all the noise and the way that I felt. So I took that moment. I said, OK, 20 people buy this meal plan. We've had a lot of people reaching out for like, you know, one on one support. That'll be great. We'll throw it up. We'll see if anyone wants to do it. It'll be a month, literally a piece of paper, Lauren, like piece of paper made on Canva PDF. 650 people bought it in the first week. And then they went, what's next month? And I thought, oh, OK, we have a business, not just something that I'm doing here to support you, but there's some proof of concept.

56:49There's some product market fit here. And in that, I instantly took every single dollar, which is like a PDF that they purchased, by the way, for$59, which is the same price as our monthly membership now, exact same price for a piece of paper, I repeat, and a WhatsApp chat because women wanted to have somewhere to connect. I took every single dollar and we said, let's film these recipes. We're not doing anything crazy, but all the recipes that are on these, can we make them short clip bite style, kind of like a TikTok or Instagram so women can now see what's actually going in the recipes? What is the food that's being made here?

57:23So we took all that money and we put it back into filming it. We threw up a Squarespace site. That Squarespace site was join each month, monthly purchases, very janky, uploading the videos all the time. Still women kept coming. We still had the WhatsApp chat. We realized right away once we got to the Squarespace site that that was a lot of heavy lifting, not scalable. And we started looking into how can we turn this into an app? This is all so quickly because at each stage, women loved it more, but it proved more like we have to better this technology. So we figured out how to turn into an app and we launched an app for mindful in 20 in may of 2024 a year and a bit ago and now we're at the stage where we're launching our own custom app in december so every single stage of that we've taken exactly what the audience has wanted what do you want we want meal plans we want community okay let's turn that into the first version of it we want to be able to get this subscription.

58:26Okay. We turned it into subscription app. We want to be able to get all these programs that are specific for hormone imbalance, for body recomp, for my sugar addiction, for clearing my skin. We want that in a place where we can follow these programs. Can you make this support me in what I'm going through? Great. We'll do that. So every single piece of this business has been co-created with our community. I feel like I'm just kind of the leader in it and they're pushing it along in so many ways. And that moment would have never happened. I don't know if I would have had the confidence to launch into what we did without feeling like it can't get worse from here.

59:09What are they going to do? They're not going to buy it. What are they going to do? They're scrutinized the meal plan. I'm just going to throw this out and see what happens. And because of that, we've been able to build a business now two years in, we've never spent a dollar on marketing. That's amazing. Congratulations. Thank you. It's very well deserved. I think it's so smart to lean into the community, listen to them and double down on what's working. I have a hack, all right? I got a lot of my holiday gifts on this site. It's called From Rebel. I got Cuisinart, KitchenAid, Lalo, my favorite baby brand, Nespresso, Ninja, Nuna, and even Caraway.

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1:04:42Of course, you can also shop my favorite vibrator and lube at WooMorePlay.com. That's WooMorePlay.com. What is your day in a life managing everything that you're doing? because you're very ritual, routine oriented, but you also are running a business clearly. What's your day in the life look like? Right now it looks a little crazy because I'm doing a lot of things on Dubai time. So I'm up at like 5 a.m. What's the Dubai thing? I'm doing a program in Dubai for they have a big focus on creator-led businesses right now. So they flew out 20 creator-led founders to basically accelerate their businesses.

1:05:22I've never been there. Is it cool? So cool. You my god should i bring my three kids we've never been yes you should you would love it they're doing actually no hear me out because in january they're doing the one billion follower summit huge names most people speaking have multi-million followers and it's all creators creator-led businesses building for the creator economy and it's all funded like dubai is really creating this hub for creators and they have why working on dubai time because i'm doing a program that's with 500 Global, which is an accelerator program, and Creator HQ, which is in Dubai.

1:06:00And so there's creators from all over the world. We're 20, but people are literally everywhere in the world. So there's like two Americans. You know who you remind me of? Your energy reminds me of Annie Lawless. She's very successful. I love it. Hang on, I'm wearing Lawless lip gloss. Yeah, she reminds me of her. I remember her when she was just starting out with Suja. You have the same, I don't know there's an essence no it's maybe it's the same essence it's the same ambition we're smiley but we might don't underestimate it you have it organized I can tell that's a very big compliment Annie's amazing what's a day in the life I'd be crazy not to ask you that right now I'm pretty much up at 5am normally not so I have to give that because it's normally not what happens 6.30, 6.45 like a normal human being that wakes up early five is just not my jam but it's happening for a short period of time i'm up really early i at least need one hour to wake up if i have to be at the gym in an hour i have to be on a call whatever it is one full hour where i'm listening to affirmations doing a journal exercise usually affirmations do you like so there's this girl madison mindset and i've listened to her for years i listened to her on spotify okay she's great gotta check it out check it out she's awesome and she's also australian i just love the accent it's like so peaceful your husband's not allowed to speak to you for an hour yes pretty much hey go on yeah it doesn't go pin it to your pin board so no actually he's normally up before me but right now he's up after me because i'm getting up at five okay so you listen to your affirmations i'm a morning person he's a night person so there we're just like if you want to be compatible we've agreed that there's this split.

1:07:47That's great. You need a little absence. Yeah. So affirmations, I would say the first thing I do is grab my five-minute journal. It's like just the easiest way to journal and have some gratitude and just get it done with and like really get your head in the right space, wash up. I'm making matcha. I'm having a starter, which is basically like a morning snack before breakfast. Have you seen me talk about this? I haven't seen a starter. What's starter this is a non-negotiable for me it is so many women wake up and they're not hungry and a lot of this is because hungry you're not hungry you are no yeah a lot of it is because of cortisol and just other hormones being in balance and also like sometimes it's just early and we're not hungry yeah but the reality is if we can get food into our body before we work out gives us sustained energy it's very important especially protein really weird but i feel like it's managing your insulin too, right?

1:08:40Yeah. Like you're not, it's almost doing what a GLP one does, which is like, it's not crashing you. So then you get so hungry. You want to balance your blood sugar. Exactly. You want to balance your blood sugar throughout the day. Andy always says this. My trainer says this. Yes. And also, I don't know if they talk about this, but time restricted eating is basically just like eating with the circadian rhythm. So you're eating when the sun's up. Oh, that's, that's interesting. I've never heard that. So what's the starter that you're eating? So I usually have a hard-boiled egg. Okay. Just one. Just one.

1:09:10One or two. Or I'll have literally a scoop of gut instinct in like cashew milk or something. Okay. So that's what I'm having first thing within like 30 minutes to an hour of waking up. Making a matcha because I don't function without it. I'm addicted to matcha. It's amazing. What's the brand? We have our own matcha. Mindful. I got to try your matcha. I know. We got to send you our matcha. Did you bring me some? I brought you a bunch of things. Oh, okay. You got all the hookups. Sorry. and gut instinct. I can't wait to try that. But you didn't get the matcha one. I'm just kidding. My God, the one thing I didn't bring you.

1:09:42It's okay. I brought you sweatsuits. I brought you... I love it all. Okay. Go ahead. We're going to get you matcha. Are you a matcha person? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to see. You got to do it the proper. Did you do it the proper way? Ceremonial grade? Yeah. The thing with matcha is like if you're not a matcha person, put matcha in a loaf or put matcha in anything and you'll end up liking matcha. Like you can add it to a smoothie. I've got a matcha loaf A lot in the bread? Okay. Really? I'm going to give you a recipe. So I do matcha loaf, which is matcha, gut instinct, egg. So gut instinct is our protein powder.

1:10:14Okay. And you can use it in lieu of flour in so many recipes. You have to send me the recipe. Yeah. And you can put egg. You can put a little salt. And basically you have loaf. You can put a little maple syrup if you want. So easy. Yeah, that sounds good. It's like four ingredients. Done. Okay. So you drink your matcha, drink my matcha. And then I usually walk my dogs and go to the gym. And that's your morning always. And then you're right into work. I'm always stretching. I do the gym. I do sauna. I do ice bath, like all the things when I have time. Are you lifting weights? Yeah. Weights. Always.

1:10:46That's what you like. Yeah. Always. It's so interesting to see the thread of people who come on the show that lifts weights. I swear it's like a dog whistle to me. I can tell who lifts weights. You can just tell. Like, it's like you could it's like an invisible string i can tell you lift weights i think that when you build more muscle it genuinely helps manage your anxiety it's like your nervous system changes it's insane it's crazy that so i think pilates and these slower movements i also walk every single day and that's like a non-negotiable for me even if it's 30 minutes and i'm just out on a call, I need to move my body in some way.

1:11:30Are you like one of those people that's like insanely tracking the steps or is it just go with the flow? I don't track anything. I do not track calories. I do not track steps. I do not measure my food. No. Calorie counting is this myth that has been is outdated, whether you call it calories, whether you call it points, whatever it is, all it is is restricting and focusing too much on something that's adding additional stress. I can't. I don't have the capacity to count calories. I never have. Of all the things I've learned how to do in my life, I have no idea how to count calories. I I wouldn't know.

1:11:59If you told me to do it, I don't know how. I don't know how. I'm not a calorie counter either. I just eat protein first. That's my strategy. So focus on what you're consuming and the quality of the foods and the macros, not necessarily measuring macros, but actually looking at your plate saying, do I have a bunch of protein on this plate? And some people don't know what that is. We can help you at Mindful. But if you don't know what protein is or where you're getting that from, even plant-based proteins, people don't really have a full understanding of what those sources are. understanding that is the first level right so that goes beyond like the first step is just okay i need whole foods right let's get you there then it's what are proteins what are carbohydrates what's the difference between a complex or a simple carbohydrates like again layering your education around nutrition is going to give you so much power to eat freely and live fully that's what we always say like you just want to be free i'm really into fiber too right now yes so important fiber with the protein yeah i found a powder that has it's unsweetened you can just put it in the collagen like mix it up yeah drink it down and that's what we do too at gut instinct it's all it's so it's a gut powder protein powder hybrid oh so it's fiber in it tons of fiber i love that yeah you got like full chia seeds in there it's it's great you're gonna love it we've we're actually the first on the market that has no sweeteners no flavors i like that not even like a natural sweetener, not even a monk fruit.

1:13:19What we do is we have cinnamon. So we have maca. So you get like that natural little sweet helps balance your hormones. It helps lowers your bloat bromelain. It's like amazing. It's so smart because you created something that you wanted. I created what the audience asked for. Yeah. Yeah. It's like co-collaborative. Yeah. Okay. I have a couple of rapid fire questions and then I have some newsletter questions. If you guys are not signed up to the skinny confidential newsletter, you got to go run over there because I'm going to ask some beauty tips and wellness trends. Okay. What is your most controversial food opinion?

1:13:53Let it rip. Be honest. So I think gluten is one of them. Okay. You don't like it. It's inflammatory for most people and people will die on that hill that they're wanting to eat gluten. I think that in different countries, it can be different, but here in North America, gluten is going to cause inflammation. That's our doctor that's amazing for my kids literally just told me that. She's like, if you want, it causes inflammation. Unless you're in Italy. The thing is, you don't have to cut out these things, but you need to be aware of what they do. Right. So I personally don't eat gluten. I have a reaction to it.

1:14:35If you feel like you maybe don't have a reaction to it or you're not sure, I think testing and seeing being feel good curious cutting something out temporarily and seeing how that works for you Finding the correlation between the food that you're eating and how it's reacting for your body Which is a big part of also what we do is just like understanding What foods are reacting for you, but people will die on the hill of gluten There is this brand it's called the good sourdough project that we order from here if anyone's here It's gluten free and it's a loaf and my kids love it and they have crackers and like it tastes it's delicious Okay.

1:15:08It's local in Austin. Are you in Austin? No. Okay, that's what I thought. No, I was like, do I need to get this the next 24 hours? I'll send you the link. Okay. It's very good. Okay. One supplement you can't live without? I have to say gut instinct, obviously. Okay, but like give me more broad. Something broad. Like for instance, elderberry. Give me like a broad supplement. I mean, magnesium, definitely. I think that's like a non-negotiable. It's going to help you optimize the protein that you are eating. It's going to help optimize your gut health. It's going to help you sleep. It's going to lower.

1:15:38It's going to help manage your nervous system, like all of the things. It's just the secret. Like everybody needs to take it. What's the one habit that is non-negotiable for you besides like sleep and eating well?

1:15:52The gym. I mean, that's so broad, but I it doesn't matter what it is showing up. I go five days a week, Monday to Friday, and I cannot not show up. And the reason for it is I don't care if I show up at the gym or like maybe in my hotel room or whatever it looks like, and I go for 10 minutes. It is what it does for me mentally to check that off and to feel accomplished through my day and to create the consistency of habit is way more powerful than actually like getting to a point where you're exhausted and you're drenched in sweat. You just need to do it. You need to keep doing it. And you just create so much more confidence when you do what you say you're going to do.

1:16:34Last question on here. What's the most important part of your skincare routine? You have beautiful skin. We got to ask you this. I mean, hydration is probably the biggest thing. You're an inside out type of person. No, I am. Every answer, I'm like, drink your water, people. Inside out. But really like staying hydrated. That's also topically, but consuming enough water. People don't actually drink enough water day to day, so they're not seeing the results that they would want in their skin because they're putting on things topically, but it comes at the cellular level as well. So yeah, I'm like all about the hydration mask.

1:17:07Everything that I can do to keep it hydrated is going to keep you looking younger. You have a code for the audience and we have a giveaway. Okay, so you gave 50 % off the annual memberships with Code Skinny at mindful.so. Yes. Is SO right? .so, yeah. Is SO new? SO is like software. what's so it's new lauren you know do you use notion no notions.so i'm not a big like only michael uses notion i don't use i had to look at excel today i told my team i was like you're gonna have to send me a text lauren has been creating digital content and businesses for two decades and is the least tech savvy person i have ever met in my entire life my husband's probably my energy she tries to run her entire business off an ipad it works it's so it does work she seems to be doing quite well no slack no notion no like mind your own i'm not i don't need another way for people to get a hold of email autoresponder on for four years running that's never off it says sorry i'm in my creative element she responds to emails she'll be like what are we So my email says, if anyone emails me, it says, I'm so sorry.

1:18:19Actually, it doesn't say sorry because that's a negative. It says, thank you so much for reaching out. I'm actually in my creative place. Let me tell you what else she does now that I'm on a rant. I need to do that. She decided that too many people had her phone number. I changed it. And she changed it. But what she did, which is okay to change it, she deleted her old number. But the old number had all the two-factor authentication for everything. Our bank accounts, our passports, our global entry. Everyone does not deserve access to your energy. This is a whole podcast. every i'm sorry so then what happened is we couldn't get i didn't tell him for a few days i just changed the number he's like there's no there's no number babe the kids are waiting like where are you and we had to go and do all it's just and i'm like you could have just like changed the number but like saved the phone it's insane behavior i honestly am i have to say i'm with lauren on this not necessarily changing the phone number but you have to put protective barriers Of course.

1:19:11But you can go to extremes now because people are going to extremes to get you. So it's fair to go to extremes to keep them out. I've had the same phone number since I was 12 years old. That's so out. That's out. Sorry, it's time to change the old number. It's feeling like - Are your exes still texting you? I can't say. Maybe, late night. Maybe. No, I don't think my exes ever want to hear from me again, to be honest. I'm not going through your phone because I'm too overwhelmed, so don't worry. Yeah, you could though. I mean, like, honestly, like, if you knew when I was 12, it's the same number.

1:19:44Reach out. Mindful.so. M-I-N-D-F-U-L-L.so. It's typically$299 and now it's$149. That's a great deal. I love what you're doing. If you guys want to win the giveaway, one winner gets a mindful membership, gut instinct and mindful merch. All you have to do is follow at mindful.so on Instagram and tell us your favorite episode on my latest post at Lauren Bostic. I love this episode I think what you're doing is very true to you and you just have to stay in your lane and put your blinders on and change your number yeah change my number change your number and get a but just make sure you move the two factor first like before you delete the number because I'm telling you it's a huge pain in the ass I want to change it again change it back to something else something different yeah we are I love that you just said like to stay true to what you're trying to do yeah we are disrupting an industry that was built by men for women.

1:20:42Yeah. And it has not been disrupted in years. A lot of the industries need to be disrupted with that. I mean, even like you look at like the beverage industry or the food industry and like they're designing for women and it's indigestible. Right. It's giving indigestion. They're not even testing the market that they're building it for. No. Maybe just men just know better than you women. Oh, it's a fucking joke, everyone calm down it's a joke michael bostick was recently canceled on his episode um where can everyone find you and say hello and follow your content yes i am at the fit fatale on everything so come say hi hit me up in the dms mindful.so mindful with two l's they can check us out we drop so much information honestly if any of this resonated with you we put so much nutrition information out for free all the time i talk a lot about my healing story so go look at some of the pictures if you're curious of what we were talking about today.

1:21:37And yeah, just every woman has the opportunity to feel good and is worthy of it and deserves it. And I hope that this just lets women feel seen and recognized and feel like there's a community to turn to. And if we're that community, incredible. And we're there for you on the other side waiting at Mindful. Thank you for coming on the show.